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  1. kerbiloid
    Lovely N1 style.
  2. kerbiloid
    Ban'ta Claus has visited you
  3. kerbiloid
    The Dying Earth is about magic, while these ones are primitively technologically heroic. They manage two airship creatures, one of them is propelled by the gas explosions.
  4. kerbiloid
    One man's cartographer is another's
  5. kerbiloid
    Like this, but Vorlon.
  6. kerbiloid
    On topic. https://books.google.ru/books/about/The_Wind_Whales_of_Ishmael.html?id=-16uPwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Far future, the Earth is dry, the oceans have degraded into pools, the skies are populated by monstrous flying creatures, the surviving people are managing some of them, the main hero saves the world oops, a spoiler.
  7. kerbiloid
    Hypergolic RCS engines. Monopropellant (hydrogen peroxide or monomethylhydrazine) or bipropellant (UDMH + NTO). Ignited in a millisecond, doesn't need an ignition system (burns on component contact, or on contact with the catalyst plate), dosed accurately, reusable for many thousand times (say, the Almaz RCS had 1 000 ignitions planned, 10 000 ignitions tested).
  8. kerbiloid
    For low-mass and/or low-budget.
  9. kerbiloid
    Banned by the crashed time machine.
  10. kerbiloid
    Now it's not just soup, it's laghman. Waiter! Where is the butter in this soup? The fly is already in it.
  11. kerbiloid
    And right yesterday they have reported about another Angara A5 shipping. Now it's clear what for.
  12. kerbiloid
    The cold gas ISP is extremely low, while the high-pressure tanks are extremely heavy. So, it makes sense only in sense of effort minimization.
  13. kerbiloid
    They were just too lazy to wash it every time from soot, so they made it out of soot. Also, this pipe organ should loudly whistle in the incoming air flow, so any acoustic station would notice its presence once it's in air. The stealth wants you to think so. It's a stealth, how do you know if it is or isn't.
  14. kerbiloid
    https://howthingsfly.si.edu/media/shuttle-reaction-control-system#:~:text=A Reaction Control System (RCS,direction or combination of directions.
  15. kerbiloid
    A frog, inflated with hydrogen. It can get dense, unless it pops. Bacteria, producing hydrogen in the frog intestines. No problem.
  16. kerbiloid
    The Ban Allen belt is banning your spaceship.
  17. kerbiloid
    Yes. A waiter. An expecter. We, druids, were waiting for twenty years for somebody sitting on this special chair. Waiter! It's a Matrix cafe, you are virtual, and the food is, too. Why am I waiting for thirty minutes?
  18. kerbiloid
    Floor 4387: The neighbors of the Weasley family, attached to the ceiling.
  19. kerbiloid
    Calling 911 because your sleigh cannot land.
  20. kerbiloid
    "So, we have grabbed the Mars. How should we bring it to home?"
  21. kerbiloid
    The RCS burn rarely lasts for a second, and its thrust (thus, its fuel consumption and exhaust production) is many times lower. So, it's just starting to burn, but immediately gets extinguished, and the burn turns into smoke..
  22. kerbiloid
    Sic transit gloria mundi. I remember the hyperloop hyperhype here several years ago... Now it's "nobody is surprised".
  23. kerbiloid
    There is a linear array of the Things, and their parents are the ArrayFactory. If Greta wins, and the smoke pipes get closed, will Santa be ramming wind plants and solar panels, and infiltrating into the room through the electric outlets?
  24. kerbiloid
    Since the Pyramids had been built, Dave is bored and missing for the good old times, when he was motivating the builders with a whip.
  25. kerbiloid
    (Offtopic just to close the unexpectedly caused water heater mass geschtalt).
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